Several social media platforms yet to share online safety plans with regulator

Coimisiún na Meán’s Online Safety Code obliges YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, Reddit, Tumblr, Facebook, Instagram, Udemy, LinkedIn, and X (formerly Twitter) to take specific actions to combat harmful content such as cyber bullying, the promotion of eating disorders, and promotion of self-harm and suicide. Picture: Yui Mok/PA

Major social platforms such as X and Reddit have yet to tell the media regulator how they will clamp down on children watching pornographic content on their sites, ahead of a July deadline for the introduction of age checks.

Speaking to the Irish Examiner, online safety commissioner Niamh Hodnett said the platforms that Coimisiún na Meán must regulate carry “different risks”.